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MLA/Writing Conventions
Literary Devices
SAT Vocab
Literary Devices (Poetry)
Streetcar
100
Write the proper MLA heading for an essay
Name Teacher's name Class Date (Day Month Year)
100
Figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
What is personification
100
Define aloof
Apart, reserved
100
Writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses
What is imagery
100
Identify the speaker of the following quote (double points if you can also identify whom the speaker is addressing): "I don’t want realism. I want magic!”
Who is Blanche (speaking to Mitch)
200
Italicize or quotation marks: The title of a play
Italicize
200
A lengthy speech delivered by one character in the presence of other characters
What is a monologue
200
Define affable
Easily approachable, very friendly
200
A poem’s rhythmical pattern determined by the number of beats in each line
What is meter
200
Identify the speaker of the following quote (double points if you can also identify whom the speaker is addressing): "And men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.”
Who is Blanche (speaking to Stella)
300
Write out the proper citation for this quote located on page 44 of The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: Then he cut into it, and got a mouthful of tiny bones.
"Then he cut into it, and got a mouthful of tiny bones" (Rushdie 44).
300
A self-contradictory combination of words or similar verbal units
What is an oxymoron
300
Define reticence
Uncommunicativeness; reserve, inclination to silence
300
A grouping of lines in poetry that usually have the same meter and rhyme
What is a stanza
300
Fill in the blank: Since earliest manhood the center of ___________ 's life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence, dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.
Who is Stanley
400
Do you underline or italicize the title of an essay you write for class?
Neither - leave it alone!
400
DAILY DOUBLE A short speech delivered by an actor in a play that expresses the character’s thoughts. It is presumed to be inaudible to the other characters and is directed to the audience
What is an aside
400
Define scrupulous
Conscientious; extremely thorough
400
Four lines of rhyming poetry, usually of the same length and rhythm
What is a quatrain
400
DAILY DOUBLE Complete the following quote: "Whoever you are—I have always depended on ___ ________ __ _________" - Blanche
What is "the kindness of strangers"
500
Italicize or quotation marks: The title of an article from The New York Times
Quotation Marks
500
The contrast between what actually happens and what is expected to happen—when the opposite of what we expect to happen, happens
What is situational irony
500
Define provincial
Limited in outlook; unsophisticated
500
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is the rhyme scheme of this type of poem
What is a sonnet
500
This character can be described as the "gentleman” of Stanley’s poker-playing friends and "much more genteel and mannered than the animalistic Stanley"
Who is Mitch